I don’t hate Dana White, I just want him to pay UFC fighters more

Good news! UFC boss Dana White doesn’t hate Jake Paul

UFC boss man Dana White recently extended an olive branch toward celebrity influencer turned professional boxer Jake Paul. And just in time too! Surprise, he really likes older but smaller brother Logan Paul.

Mike Tyson’s Hotboxin’ podcast seems to be the celestial medium via which these great souls communicate (transcript via MMA Junkie).

“I don’t f*cking hate Jake Paul,” White said. “Jake Paul is one of those guys that he’s a young kid, and he’s just trying to get attention. He’s always looking for attention and, he’s doing his thing. Whatever – it’s all good.”

Logan seems to have earned (or purchased) White’s fondness by partnering with the UFC to promote his hydration drink “Prime.” Not sure how hydration drinks vary from the much different (and surely wildly popular) dehydration drink segment.

“The brother is f*cking brilliant,” White said. “I mean, the brother’s f*cking raking in big dough. Logan Paul is a businessman. This kid’s really making some big moves, and KSI too. Those kids are making real money and doing their thing.”

Even better news! Jake Paul doesn’t hate Dana White either

Fortunately, Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson is open to all — well all high-profile combat sports celebrity types anyhow — and Jake got to extend an olive branch of his own….with a buzzer about fighter pay attached (transcribed by MMA Junkie).

“I don’t hate him either, I just want him to pay fighters more,” Paul said. “You know, now that the company is making billions of dollars a year, and the fighters are only getting 15 percent of it. That’s really where all of it stems from, is wanting higher fighter pay and long-term health care for the fighters.

“Obviously, we’ve gotten into these exchanges that muddies the purpose of why I’ve argued with him. You know, he throws out the fights are rigged, he’s on steroids; then I say something back about him being bald and ugly. It gets too messy and then we start going back and forth.”

Facts about UFC profits — Endeavor is making mad bank

Seems like Jake Paul has been reading (or skimming or he glanced at a headline or someone texted him a summary) the coverage of UFC fighter pay by Bloody Elbow’s John Nash. It’s only been a couple months since Nash reported the ugly facts revealed by UFC parent company Endeavor’s latest financial reports.

The excerpts below are from behind the Bloody Elbow Substack paywall.

For more on John Nash’s full deep-dive into their 2022 financials, which reveals new information on fighter pay and record breaking profits, check out the full post over at our Substack page.

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